Books published by Left Coast Press Inc

Features articles on ICOMOS rules on dispute resolution, Section 47 of the Internal Revenue Code, risk and fair market value of antiquities, the visual artists rights act, and religious free exercise and historic preservation.

This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.

With contributions from 70 experienced practitioners from around the world, this second edition of the authoritative Handbook of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology provides a solid foundation in both the practical and ethical components of forensic work. The book weaves together the discipline¿s historical development; current field methods for analyzing crime, natural disasters, and human atrocities; an array of laboratory techniques; key case studies involving legal, professional, and ethical issues; and ideas about the future of forensic work--all from a global perspective. This fully revised second edition expands the geographic representation of the first edition by including chapters from practitioners in South Africa and Colombia, and adds exciting new chapters on the International Commission on Missing Persons and on forensic work being done to identify victims of the Battle of Fromelles during World War I.

This book presents a much-needed review of commercial closures for bottles and jars used in America prior to World War II.

This is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in North American archaeological sites.

This fascinating volume reviews Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory and presents a model in which the onset of the Middle Stone Age (before 285,000 years ago) marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers.

Bestselling author Max van ManenΓÇÖs Writing in the Dark brings together a wide range of studies of relevance to qualitative researchers and professional practitioners. Each of the sixteen original chapters by accomplished scholars serves as an example of how a different kind of human experience may be explored, and of how the methods used for investigating phenomena may contribute to the process of human understanding. Van Manen provides the opening and closing chapters for the book, and also an introduction to each selection. This book is a valuable and rich resource for people who would like to learn more about phenomenological reflection and writing.Van Manen and his contributing authors:-Show how the challenge of doing qualitative research can be pursued through the process of inquiry, reflection and writing-Are from a variety of fields such as education, health sciences, psychology, arts and design, communication technology, and religious studies-Include numerous recognizable human experiences including common ones, forgotten ones, and ritualized ones

In the revised and updated second edition of The Tone of Teaching, bestselling author Max van Manen defines sound pedagogy for both teachers and parents as the ability to distinguish effectively between what is appropriate, and what is less appropriate, in our communications and dealings with children and young people.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

Why did ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs.

Rico's critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the post-destruction narratives that accompanied it, showing the sociocultural, historical, and political agendas these discourses raise.

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200¿700 BC).This broad study presents these vessels as central to understanding interregional connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, and also considers the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

This second edition of this best-selling introduction to conducting qualitative research in applied and clinical settings retains the clear, practical guidance for researchers and students in health, social service, mental health, and related settings. This edition includes additional material on knowledge synthesis and integration, evidence-based practice, and data analysis.

Compelling personal stories of five diverse young women, plus the author s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis, vividly convey the lived experience of bullying to help understand how this form of violence shapes identity, relationships, interactions, and the construction of meaning among youth."

Renowned scholar and founder of the practice of narrative inquiry, D. Jean Clandinin, and her coauthors provide researchers with the theoretical underpinnings and processes of narrative inquiry for working with the special populations of children and youth.

World-renowned autoethnographers Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis present the first comprehensive text to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, they address key issues in a literary and pedagogical fashion and use numerous examples from their own work and other evocative autoethnographers.

A team of fifteen researchers from various disciplines and nationalities offer ethical strategies unique to qualitative researchers for those big ethical moments beyond what can be predicted by ethics committees."

Vera Caine and Judy Mill outline the basic steps and issues in the community-based research process. Using examples from numerous projects from around the world, they discuss topics from collaboratively designing and conducting the research with community members, to building community capacity and negotiating complicated questions of researcher control and ethics.

Challenging the critique that autoethnography is too self-focused, Tami Spry calls for a new performative autoethnography that is transgressive, liberatory, and decolonizing. She uses a variety of examples, literary forms, and theoretical traditions to demonstrate this innovative approach in action.

This engaging volume critically examines previous theories of collapse of ancient complex societies and offers a new one, that of social hubris. The concept is evaluated through examination of ancient Egypt, Rome, Maya, and others.

In the student friendly textbook, Just Relationships, Douglas Kelley provides a conceptual framework for understanding social justice within an interpersonal context through the use of existing social science theory.

Written by a diverse group of anthropologists, environmental researchers, environmentalists, and policy-makers, The Carbon Fix closely examines the current model for dealing with global warming¿paying for carbon capture¿and the negative effects this model has on rural communities, indigenous groups, and others in less developed regions who depend on or control carbon- sequestering lands.

Based on a multi-year international study of 20 innovative museums, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer key questions regarding the processes and problems involved in transforming a collections-based museum to a visitor-centered approach.

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human. Conversations on Human Nature brings these debates to life for teachers, students, and general readers.

Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times.